December 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show delivers a packed lineup of political analysis and breaking commentary. The hour opens with an exclusive interview with Congressman Jim Jordan, who outlines the GOP’s legislative priorities before the 2026 campaign season kicks into high gear. Jordan emphasizes healthcare reform focused on choice and competition, rejecting expanded Obamacare subsidies, and highlights the need for tax cuts and regulatory reform to combat lingering inflation. He warns that despite progress under President Trump, prices remain painfully high for everyday Americans—a reality that could shape the 2026 midterm elections. Jordan also stresses the importance of passing a real budget, avoiding endless continuing resolutions, and protecting civil liberties during the upcoming FISA reauthorization, citing alarming revelations about government surveillance.
The conversation pivots to Democratic strategy and the fallout from the longest government shutdown, with Jordan predicting the left will double down on extreme policies, from open borders to gender ideology. Clay and Buck underscore the political stakes: losing the House could trigger another Trump impeachment and stall conservative reforms.
Later in the hour, the hosts tackle a major controversy in Minnesota—President Trump’s fiery remarks on the Somali fraud scandal, where scammers allegedly billed for 125 million fake meals under a child-feeding program, siphoning off billions in taxpayer funds. Clay and Buck dissect the cultural and political implications, questioning whether fear of appearing “xenophobic” allowed systemic fraud to flourish. They draw parallels to the UK’s grooming gang scandals and debate assimilation challenges, spotlighting cases where defendants cite Somali cultural norms as a defense in U.S. courts. This segment raises urgent questions about immigration policy, law enforcement, and cultural accountability.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Second hour playing.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Buck kicks off now, thanks for being here, everybody, and
we're gonna probably probably be joined by Congress and Jim
Jordan here in a few moments.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Oh, we already got him.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I was about to dive into the Minnesota Somali fraud story,
but Congress and Jordan, it's Buck, it's play.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Appreciate you being with us, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good to be with you, guys. Thanks all you do. Buck. Congratulations, congratulations.
I've seen the athletic prowess one hundred miles per hour
serve that you are championing and putting out there for
the entire planet to view. So I stand corrected. I've
seen it now multiple times.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You're a big man to come on the air and
admit that you were among the doubters.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
There were some doubters out there.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Jim was very supportive of me and General Clay, but
a doubter. And it was one hundred and three miles
an hour, but you know who's counting. So I appreciate that,
especially yeah, yeah, from somebody with the athletic back that
you have, being like a state champion wrestler, I appreciate that.
Easier for people to judge a lot of people in
the cheap seat saying, hey, middle aged guy, buck, stay
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with call of duty. I still got some juice in
this arm. I still got some juice in this arm.
All right, Congressman, thank you, thank you for that. You're
a good man. Now tell us what are you guys
in the Congress while you still have the majority. Let's
hope that continues for well through the rest of US
administration and beyond. What are you trying to get done
by the end of this session, because it's coming upon
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us very quickly. What's top of the agenda?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well, I do think, you know, because the Democrats to
raise this issue, they shut the government down, you know,
for forty three days a month and a half, I think,
largely to go after President Trump. But they said their
stated reason was it was about healthcare. I do think
it makes sense for us to look at ways to
bring down premiums, but it's not a further subsidy of Obamacare.
I learned a long time ago. Subside typically don't bring
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down costs. In fact, they normally drive cost up and
better approaches choice and competition, which is what we want
to do. So we're looking to put together healthcare package.
The speaker I think was talking about this yesterday on
health savings accounts association health plans, giving families the ability
to purchase kind of plan that fits their needs. Younger
families don't need some of the same coverage that older
Americans need, So there's ways to do that I think
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makes sense, and so we're looking to do that. Of course,
we've got a big bill on the floor today that
we'll be speaking on later this afternoon on college sports.
We got the January thirtieth issue on funding the government
and a host of other things, and I think Franklin
we got to make a decision on we're going to
do a second reconciliation package or not, because the first
and all I thought was great and it's going to
(02:37):
I think, starting to have impact on our economy. But
all those are things that I think we need to
focus on getting done here for the American people and
build on the great record we've seen with securing the
border cut in taxes and some of the success that
President Trump has had on the international scene as well.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
When you look ahead to twenty twenty six, we've had
the last win, thankfully in my congressional district, Matt Van
Evskin joining you as a colleague, and I know Speaker
Johnson was on with us earlier this week campaigning for him.
When do you think in your mind the pivot to
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the official start of the twenty twenty sixth election becomes.
And the reason why I'm asking is, you know, we're
finishing twenty twenty five. This is the last of all
those races happened last night. Is it August in your
mind where it officially flips the campaign season? You've been
through a lot of these. Yeah, When to you does
the campaign really start next year?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I mean largely it's when we when you know, Congress
has this historic break in the month of August, So
that's sort of the traditional time where okay, now it's
just full till politics until till the November election. But
you know, you guys know this. I mean you're on
you're on the radio, you're talking to it, this this
huge audience every day. We're pretty much in the perpetual campaign.
I mean it's like, you know, no sinner's one race,
(03:56):
don until the're already talking about the next one. And
then the states that have the few elections, like New
Jersey and Virginia and so it's almost perpetual. I don't
know if it's not necessarily good or bad, but certainly
the traditional timeframe is next summer, but I think it
probably gets here a little sooner. And with the Democrats
and they're constant attack on the president, in some ways,
(04:19):
it feels like it's never stopped.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
What's the way to actually deal with affordability for the
administration and for the Congress to the degree that it's
even possible. I mean, there's the structural issues, Congressman, of
the inflation that we have, the trillion spent under Biden
that spiked us to a forty year high in inflation.
Still trying to deal with that. Prices though, bringing them
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down very tough. Even keeping them static would seem to
be in some ways a challenge. Depends on what we're
talking about, but healthcare specifically, it's just completely out of control.
I mean, anybody who looks at their premiums now versus
their premiums a deck go. I mean, you go back
to the beginnings of Obamacare really a decade and a
half ago, and.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
People's premiums have gone up two or three times monthly premiums.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And they told us, remember they told us you like
your plan, you can keep your plan. You like your doctor,
you can keep your doctor, and premiums will go down.
They were zero for three. And now what Democrats are saying, oh,
the expanded credit, the expanded subsidy in the Obamacare plan
that we want to give to insurance companies, we want
to extend that, Well, how does that make any sense?
(05:30):
And how's that going to bring down costs and make
things more affordable. It's not. So you got to go
back to what I said, choice and competition bring down costs.
Let's focus on that in healthcare. Let's also look at
the fact that these taxing cuts that we had in
the Big Beautiful Bill are just now starting to kick in.
I think they're going to have pay real dividends for
American families as we move into twenty six and we
get closer to the election. I think that will help
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us politically, certainly will help families in a real way,
help our economy, but also help us politically. I think
all that is going to improve. And then finally, the
last point I make, and you were saying this, Buck,
it was so bad under a Biden. The spending inflation
was off to the chart nine percent like going crazy levels,
record levels of inflation, never seen those levels before. President
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Trump and Republicans bring it down significantly, but things still
cost too much. When you have that, the curve is
going straight up, and you bring the curve down to
almost flat, it's still way too high. So it's going
to take a while for the big beautiful bill, the
tax cuts, the regulatory reform that we had in there
to really impact them. We can do some good things
on healthcare. I think we can bring down cost even more.
We're seeing that at the gas pump right now, lower
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pricing everything else. But I think that's how it has
to play out, and I think it can as we
move into next year, moving and get closer to the election.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I think you hit on the signature issue that's going
to be out there in twenty twenty six talking to
Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, and that is people are
just frustrated with what things cost, and it went up
so fast under Joe Biden that even if you start
to bring back sanity to pricing, the price is still
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feel like too much. I mean, I ordered I had
Chick fil A with my kids yesterday. The amount I
have to pay for Chick fil A. It blows my
mind every time I do it. Everyone out there knows
what that feeling is when you go to buy something
and in your head it feels like it should cost
twenty bucks and instead it costs thirty. Everybody knows that feeling.
And I've used the analogy Congressman of back when the
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same thing happened with Jimmy Carter Reagan.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
It took a while for people to stabilize there.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Great point. Will we were talking about the same thing yesterday.
Great point.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Will it register with enough people by the time we
get to November of next year. That's my biggest concern
because I think by twenty eight it will. By twenty six,
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, I mean that's that's you know, that's the big question.
I think it will. I'm confident. One of my colleagues,
excuse me, one of my colleagues said yesterday, he thinks
when when you know, the big beautiful bill really kicks in,
he thinks it will have that kind of impact on
the sharp guy is on the Budget Committee. I mean
understand this stuff. So I tend to think it will.
(08:07):
And I'm always the optimism about these good policies that
we put in place. So let's hope. So I think so,
but we'll just have to see, and we're gonna have
to go out and tell people. And remember, campaigns aren't
just about that. They're also about telling you, telling voters
what the other side wants to do. Never forget I've
said there's many times not all Democrats are crazy, but
the left that controls their party is. And they're the
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party that says we want to defund the police, which
is crazy. They're the party that says men schi compete
against women in sports, which is crazy. They're the party
that says we shouldn't have a border to just be
wide open, which we saw for four years. That is crazy.
So we got to highlight those things as well and
then point to the positive that we've accomplished that make
life better for families across this country. That's how the
campaign's going to unfold, in my judgment, and I think
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we're going to have a pretty good Storytell.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Congers, and do you think that Democrats, after the longest shutdown,
the complete own goal of the shot down, but do
you think that they have politically learned a lesson from this?
As in, this isn't something they want to try again,
or what do you think I mean, looking at the
way that they operated then and what you're hearing now
(09:14):
being up on Capitol Hill and obviously having to work
with Democrats on a whole range of things and deal
with them, what's their takeaway from all of that? What
do you think they're going to do going forward with
continuing resolutions? Like how are they going to play it?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Well, how they're going to play January thirty two? Knows?
You might try it again, But I do not think
they've learned any any lesson that any in a way
we would really I think, wow, I think, well, look
at Chuck Schumer. Six months ago he voted for the
CR and then this time he would have he let
people who were retiring or others in safer seats who
weren't up for re election whether they could vote for
it to open back up the government. So I don't
(09:48):
think they've learned anything, because again, remember the left controls
their party, and the left was adamantly opposed to opening
up the government. The left is the left, and the
Democrat Party were the people who persuaded them to shut
down the government. So the left control of that party
that's where all the energy is. That's the Mom Donnie
wing that in the AOC wing that that's the control
(10:10):
and the energy and the party. So I do not
think I think they're gonna they're double down on that.
I mean, they ran in a district in Tennessee, mad
Van App's great guy, West Point Brad helicopter pilot, wonderful family,
good guy. We endorsed that guy early, great guy, great candidates.
They ran what the AOC of Tennessee is Tennessee, for
goodness sake, and you're you're talking about some left wing
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person is gonna win a seat in Tennessee that's got
a bunch of rural counties around Nashville. Like that makes
no sense, But that's today's left. So I do I
think the lesson is we're just going to keep pushing
ahead with all the left wing policies.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
What else is out there we should know? Uh, Jim,
as we get ready and we got a lot of
questions about, hey, you know, we know that we're going
to have control of the House in the Senate for
one more year, right until you guys take your recess
in the summer to start the campaign season. And we
know that If we lose the House, President Trump's probably
going to get impeached for a third time. And you
(11:06):
know better than anybody that stuff will drag that drag on.
It'll be very difficult to get anything passed. What to
you is the most important thing that can be passed
in the next year, that that's your top priority or
that you think should be the top priority of the
Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well, I'll mention two things. One First, it's just more general.
I just think we should do our job. I mean,
there hasn't been a budget passed. The budget sets the
framework for doing the appropriations part. I think we should
do our job. Pass the budget, moving the appropriations fund
the government, follow the processes. That's you know, tried and
true versus all these crs and all these shutdowns talk
and everything else. So just just do our job. Show
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up at committee, focus on good policy. Get the kind
of healthcare that that gives choice and competition versus you know,
more substis that they want to do under Obamacare. So
I think that's sort of in a general sense. Second,
I do think when you look at the weaponization of
government over the last years that we've that we've all
been a part of an scene and uncovered. I do
think we have this spiz of reauthorization coming up in
(12:05):
the spring. I think it's important we get that right
and protect Americans liberties. I mean, I just found out
two weeks ago that Jack Smith and his team were
getting my phone records, spying and surveilling me for two
and a half years. They knew who who called me,
when they called me, how long the call, laughed, and
if I initiated the call, they knew where I was
at when I initiated the call. You talk about patterning
(12:28):
someone's life, You figure out every morning, Clay or Buck,
you call it, you text your wife, when you go
to work, you call it this time, you call your brother,
you call your colleague Clay, like they can pattern all that.
That's creepy, but that's what they were doing. And so
I do think with this spize of reauthorization, we need
to focus on protecting the Fourth Amendment, your First Amendment liberties,
making sure those are strong protections in place, because that's
(12:49):
our system, that's the Constitution, that's the Bill of Rights,
and that's what we need to do. So I think
that's an important element that we have to get right.
That comes up for reauthorization this coming April, and it's
and it's you know, right in our media course.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Awesome. Well, we appreciate the time you bet.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Thanks guys, Thanks all the good work you do. Buck. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I'll be watching thank you next year. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I appreciate the congrats, especially because my shoulder is still
a little sore. But that's a conversation for another time,
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the air there, Buck psycho, in other words, from representing
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people that this crazy lady would be representing me if
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(15:55):
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what Trump has said about the Somali community in Minneapolis
here in just a second. Getting a lot of attention
on this, but first up, I just I just have
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to because this is going to be fun. We have
as you know, we have robust audience in all fifty states.
But I'm particularly pleased because this shows how cool it
is it radio people could listen to us in Alaska
on the radio, and they do, including Pam who listens
on k E N I six six fifty k E
and I up in Anchorage, and this is what she
(19:23):
had to say.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Okay, Buck, you're trying my patients a little bit here.
So last week I was I was wounded by your
cobbler hatred and on behalf of the entire state of
Alaska who goes you know, weeks and subs are a
weather stop. Just stop with your blanky and your air conditioning.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Look, sometimes the air conditioning is really whistling over here
in South Florida. And I'm wearing shorts and a T
shirt all the time because that's just as one does here.
But I will for our Alaska listeners, Clay, I will
put this out there. It is my understanding that if
you rub your hands together and blow on them a
few times, that can help. Or perhaps Alaskans take your heads,
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put them in your armpits, let them warm up a
little bit, and then it'll be just like South Florida.
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Ball me perfect I need. I've said this before.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I'm gonna take a trip you've been because, in fact,
with your dad when we were out to dinner recently,
your brother was complaining about you guys getting dropped off
and grizzly bears and everything else on your family trip
to Alaska where your dad just kind of took.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You into a while.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Tell the quick version of the story is that we actually,
I mean, now this is gonna sound a little a
little frufrey, but we we had these little, very small
helicopters that would drop us off for fly fishing in
some streams in some areas. And you could see in
these streams because you're up in the there's no roads
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and no where to get here. This was off the
Keenai Peninsula, I think it was. This is now going
back two thousand and nine, so I gotta go to
the memory here a bit. But when we landed, we
just landed to do some fly fishing. But the only
way to get in and out was helicopter. And we
were told via radio, oh, you guys, there's a big
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like a storm came in. Suddenly you may have to
just hang out. And then they were like, you may
have to overnight.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
We had nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
We had no food, we had no packs, we had nothing.
So and there were grizzly bears all over the place. Now,
the good thing is the grizzly bears are just eating
salmon and creating a lot of blubber for themselves. For hibernation.
So the grizzly bears are actually in a very good mood,
but they're still large and have teeth and claws and
they could get annoyed at you. We had a couple
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of fifty cow handguns among us, but the guides who
have been one of our guides had actually been a
marine in Fallujah and was a great dude.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
He was just like, look, man.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
The fifty cow, like, it's better to try to skip
the bear away first. And also, if you shoot a
bear in Alaska and it's not in physical you can't
prove that it was actually attacking you. It treated like
a murder investigation. I mean, state authority is gonna be
like you absolutely cannot just be like I thought the
bear was. It basically has to be mauling you and
then you can defend yourself. So he's like, it's better
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if you had to you want to shoot in the
air and try to scare it away because he's like
a handgun fifty cow with a full grown grizzly bear charging.
Good luck it doesn't stop. In other words, like it
just keeps coming. Yeah, and I think it I again,
I've never been I need to go. But because there
it was the S and W five hundred. By the way,
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for any you who are wonning, guess, we were carrying revolvers.
So a lot of people have to travel in Alaska
and helicopter and plane because there aren't roads in the
same way that there are for many other parts such
an a a voluminous and expansive place.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I'm also desperately trying to get back my man card
here after that other guy with his devastating cel phone
of Man card violations, Clay, would he put them all
out there?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I was like, Man, that is kind of rough.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
So uh, you know, sometimes I go grizzly bear grizzly
bear fishing or fishing your grizzly bears and do man stuff,
you know what I mean. So you're gonna lost a
ton of videos of you shooting things like that, your
your social media accounts from this weekend. I'm getting out
the bazuka. I'm taking out the full auto this weekend.
I got to make up for some things here. But
you and Laura in all seriousness, and the boys Alaska,
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I mean, we went in summer, but Alaska.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And it's amazingly beautiful and the stop sea is incredible.
I want to thought them. Seeing Moose was really was
really cool too.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
They're so much bigger than you think when you even
get close enough to have some understanding of them, They're
absolutely incredible. All right, all right, back to politics, Back
to Trump. Sorry about that little little diversion there. Try
to rack up a couple of man card points for me.
We have Trump weighing in on the Somali fraud story.
Listen with the President. I state said, I'm just gonna
let you hear it. This has cut ten what I watch.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
One is happening in Minnesota, the land of a thousand lakes.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
However many lakes they have. They got a lot of legs,
but this beautiful.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
Place, and I see these people ripping it off. And
now I'm on the standing and you're gonna look in
to that's got I hear. They ripped off some alliance
ripped off that state for billions of dollars, billions every year,
billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And they contribute nothing.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
The welfare is like eighty eight percent. They contribute nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I don't want them in our country.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Okay, somebody say, oh, that's not politically correct. I don't care.
I don't want them in our country. Their country is
no good for a reason. Their country stakes.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Play.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
As you can imagine, the anti Trump media, the Democrats,
they are all in it, all pizzy about what Trump
said here. This is interesting the population. I'm reading from
our friend. He has a great account at maze more.
Literally this popped up as we're talking about this. During
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a twenty month period, defeeding our future, scammers build for
over one hundred and twenty five million fake meals. Think
about this population of Minnesota, he says about six million people. Uh,
and only one point three million people are under the
age of eighteen.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
So we're not talking.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
When you're billing for one hundred and twenty five million
fake meals. Some of the fake kid names they came
up with were Man Sincere and John Doe. I mean,
this is this the scale of this fraud should have
been so easy to catch because according to this one
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hundred and twenty five million meals, what did you have
set back and said, I mean, just think about the
sheer scale that of volume of food you would need
to have to prepare one hundred and twenty five million meals.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
There's I have many thoughts on this.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
One is to steal under the guise of charity, specifically
a charity feeding needy children is particularly grotesque, right, Yes,
you know it's it's bad, and you'll go to prison
for a long time for defrauding the federal government for
Medicare or medicaid or something. But to say, hey, give
(26:35):
me all this money, I'm pretending to feed needy children, right,
there's something particularly gross and particularly detestable about that. That's
that's you know, one aspect of this. And then there's
also I think the recognition play that of course, the
Somali community in Minneapolis, and we'll get to Jacob. I
think it's the mayor Fray is a Jacob Jacob Fray,
(26:57):
I forget his Yes, yes, that's right, right or of Minneapolis.
Here in a second, who now starts speaking Somali in
government you know, meetings and public announcements. Not very well,
I would guess, but he does speak Somali.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
There's a political constituency now in that state that operates
as a unit. And this is what happened. This is
an assimilation. Okay, this is something much more akin to
a fifth column this is a group operating as a
you give us what we want specifically, and in this case,
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a group that is operating with a percentage. I understand
it's only you know, a small number overall of the
of the group, but billions of dollars of criminality that
you know, how many people actually touch that money you
start to look at it, it would be interesting and clay.
Then there's also how much of this was able to
continue because people in a Democrat state like Minneapolis just
(27:55):
felt uncomfortable with what was going on with the Somali community,
meaning it will look racist, it will look xenophobic, I
don't want to touch this. One of the most horrific
examples of this phenomenon of a foreign immigrant group that
people don't want to address the criminality going going on
(28:17):
was Rotherham and in the UK, where you had a
pack you had these Pakistani child rape gangs that were
operating and when they went back, this was just a
few years ago, and when they went back and they
kept that girls, little girls and their parents twelve thirteen
years old were going into the police and saying that
this is what happened to me, and the police when
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they finally this became too much of an issue. And
by the way, the US media did not spend nearly
enough time on this. Rotherham is the really infamous case.
That's the name of the town, the city Clay. You
know what they were saying, Well, we didn't want this
to reflect badly. The police were saying, we didn't want
this to reflect badly on the broader Pakistani British community. Yeah,
(28:59):
is that phenomenon alive? And well here that same idea
of well, we don't want to enforce the law because
people will realize we've got a real problem in the
Somali community in Minneapolis. I think Trump certainly thinks that's real. Well,
one of the defenses that's going on, they have a
child rape allegation case that I was reading about in
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a Somali immigrant in Minnesota, and the defense that is
being offered on his behalf. Did you see this is
he hasn't really assimilated yet to American culture and he's
still still participating in Somali culture, which means sex with
twelve year olds is considered standard behavior in Somalia. And
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so this to me goes to the culture of the
people that we are actually bringing to this country. And
again this is why I don't think there's a hissess.
Also came up, by the way, in the UK with
those Pakistani they call them grooming gangs.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I think that term is where to you know, sort
of sanitize it. Their rape gangs. They were child rape
gangs that were operating. And when they would say well,
in Pakistan, I mean there effectively is no I mean,
the age of consent is not enforced and it doesn't
really exist. Right, So they were saying, well, I mean
the police, everyone, the police in the UK were like, well,
(30:19):
to be fair, it's like, no, you're in the UK
and these are children and you're supposed to defend them.
They should be the first people to be defended in
a civilized place. Clay, the fact that that's even being
brought up here in America is pretty shocking and horrifying. Yeah,
and again I think it goes to why there's not
a great historical analogy in play here. To people who say, well,
(30:41):
we've always had a you know, massive immigration policy. Go
back to Ellis Island. Look at what's written on the
Statue of Liberty. The people who came to America in
the late eighteen hundreds and the early nineteen hundreds, that
huge wave of immigration were coming from Western civilization.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
They're truly similar.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yes, there is a corresponding degree of agreement because it
comes out of a Judeo Christian culture with what should
be considered acceptable in the world that doesn't exist. When
you're talking about the defense being offered for a Somali
individual in the United States who is accused of raping
a twelve year old, the defense is, well, he hasn't
(31:23):
assimilated enough to American culture. What you're saying is the
culture completely condones twelve year old sex in Somalia. This
is I mean, this is a thing that I'll tell you.
In Afghanistan, a lot of our soldiers who worked very
closely with the indigenous forces and some of the indigenous
(31:46):
elements there. One of the terrible things that they would
become aware, you know, they weren't the police force of
Afghanistan so to speak, but they've become aware of is
what is culturally allowed in a place like Afghanistan is barbarous.
It is barbarous, truly, Okay. And uh we were trying
(32:08):
to just you know, stop the Taliban, and we were
told you know that you aren't the local police force.
I mean this this you guys who served that, the
guys and gals listening served in Afghanistan. You know exactly
what I'm talking about the kind of stuff that would
go on over there culturally and specifically when it came
to the the uh, the sexual abuse of of of
children that was not you know, they we weren't. They
(32:32):
weren't talking about it, and the pressed do you want
to talk about it? Because Afghanistan has its own you know,
had its own cultural standards.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
It was horrific, horrific the stuff that was going on
over there. Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
And anyway, and we import the third world and we wonder,
what's going on?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
This is the point.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
We're bringing people in from these places and then they
act a certain way and we go, wait a second,
you you know, you mean, this isn't what the founders intended.
And Trump is saying, you know, we got to look
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Speaker 2 (35:05):
Welcome back in play Travis Buck Sexton show you guys
holding up phone lines. We're going to get to a
bunch of your calls in the third hour. Let me
go to John in Loma Linda, California. John, what you
got for us?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Time? Listener. Then I was started with rushback in the eighties.
I was listening to the callers decrying that the victory
of margin in Tennessee was only nine points. The issue
here is that these callers and panic and Republicans, along
with low IQ Democrats, is that they don't really understand
proportional statistics. To six seven has just under eight hundred
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thousand voters and over seventy percent voted in twenty twenty four,
with Trump's margin victory being around twenty two percent. In
this special election, less than one hundred and eighty thousand
voters showed up, which is approximately twenty three percent of
the voting population, and Van Epps still won by nine
percent and more than two times to predictive poll standard error.
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What that means is that the Democrat was salacked in
this election and Dan Evs will have to spend his
seat next year. But I suspect that when you get
over fifty percent, he'll win with double digits.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I agree with the caller like the data analysis here. Again,
these special elections have much lower turnout rates, and as
I said, there are more people on the left who
define their entire lifestyle based on the identity of their vote.
We come back, we'll dive into this Venezuela situation. A
lot of talks still coming on that we'll take another
(36:31):
little victory lap over the election results that came in
last night, and we'll take more of your calls eight
hundred and two to two, eight two. If you're still
with us, you can hang on. Plus lots of reaction
to our caller Linda from yesterday.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
We'll have some more fun with that. Thank y'all,
Second hour playing.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Buck kicks off now, thanks for being here, everybody, and
we're gonna probably probably be joined by Congress and Jim
Jordan here in a few moments.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Oh, we already got him.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I was about to dive into the Minnesota Somali fraud story,
but Congress and Jordan, it's Buck, it's play.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Appreciate you being with us, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good to be with you, guys. Thanks all you do. Buck. Congratulations, congratulations.
I've seen the athletic prowess one hundred miles per hour
serve that you are championing and putting out there for
the entire planet to view. So I stand corrected. I've
seen it now multiple times.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You're a big man to come on the air and
admit that you were among the doubters.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
There were some doubters out there.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Jim was very supportive of me and General Clay, but
a doubter. And it was one hundred and three miles
an hour, but you know who's counting. So I appreciate that,
especially yeah, yeah, from somebody with the athletic back that
you have, being like a state champion wrestler, I appreciate that.
Easier for people to judge a lot of people in
the cheap seat saying, hey, middle aged guy, buck, stay
(01:09):
with call of duty. I still got some juice in
this arm. I still got some juice in this arm.
All right, Congressman, thank you, thank you for that. You're
a good man. Now tell us what are you guys
in the Congress while you still have the majority. Let's
hope that continues for well through the rest of US
administration and beyond. What are you trying to get done
by the end of this session, because it's coming upon
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us very quickly. What's top of the agenda?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well, I do think, you know, because the Democrats to
raise this issue, they shut the government down, you know,
for forty three days a month and a half, I think,
largely to go after President Trump. But they said their
stated reason was it was about healthcare. I do think
it makes sense for us to look at ways to
bring down premiums, but it's not a further subsidy of Obamacare.
I learned a long time ago. Subside typically don't bring
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down costs. In fact, they normally drive cost up and
better approaches choice and competition, which is what we want
to do. So we're looking to put together healthcare package.
The speaker I think was talking about this yesterday on
health savings accounts association health plans, giving families the ability
to purchase kind of plan that fits their needs. Younger
families don't need some of the same coverage that older
Americans need, So there's ways to do that I think
(02:16):
makes sense, and so we're looking to do that. Of course,
we've got a big bill on the floor today that
we'll be speaking on later this afternoon on college sports.
We got the January thirtieth issue on funding the government
and a host of other things, and I think Franklin
we got to make a decision on we're going to
do a second reconciliation package or not, because the first
and all I thought was great and it's going to
(02:37):
I think, starting to have impact on our economy. But
all those are things that I think we need to
focus on getting done here for the American people and
build on the great record we've seen with securing the
border cut in taxes and some of the success that
President Trump has had on the international scene as well.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
When you look ahead to twenty twenty six, we've had
the last win, thankfully in my congressional district, Matt Van
Evskin joining you as a colleague, and I know Speaker
Johnson was on with us earlier this week campaigning for him.
When do you think in your mind the pivot to
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the official start of the twenty twenty sixth election becomes.
And the reason why I'm asking is, you know, we're
finishing twenty twenty five. This is the last of all
those races happened last night. Is it August in your
mind where it officially flips the campaign season? You've been
through a lot of these. Yeah, When to you does
the campaign really start next year?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I mean largely it's when we when you know, Congress
has this historic break in the month of August, So
that's sort of the traditional time where okay, now it's
just full till politics until till the November election. But
you know, you guys know this. I mean you're on
you're on the radio, you're talking to it, this this
huge audience every day. We're pretty much in the perpetual campaign.
I mean it's like, you know, no sinner's one race,
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don until the're already talking about the next one. And
then the states that have the few elections, like New
Jersey and Virginia and so it's almost perpetual. I don't
know if it's not necessarily good or bad, but certainly
the traditional timeframe is next summer, but I think it
probably gets here a little sooner. And with the Democrats
and they're constant attack on the president, in some ways,
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it feels like it's never stopped.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
What's the way to actually deal with affordability for the
administration and for the Congress to the degree that it's
even possible. I mean, there's the structural issues, Congressman, of
the inflation that we have, the trillion spent under Biden
that spiked us to a forty year high in inflation.
Still trying to deal with that. Prices though, bringing them
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down very tough. Even keeping them static would seem to
be in some ways a challenge. Depends on what we're
talking about, but healthcare specifically, it's just completely out of control.
I mean, anybody who looks at their premiums now versus
their premiums a deck go. I mean, you go back
to the beginnings of Obamacare really a decade and a
half ago, and.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
People's premiums have gone up two or three times monthly premiums.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And they told us, remember they told us you like
your plan, you can keep your plan. You like your doctor,
you can keep your doctor, and premiums will go down.
They were zero for three. And now what Democrats are saying, oh,
the expanded credit, the expanded subsidy in the Obamacare plan
that we want to give to insurance companies, we want
to extend that, Well, how does that make any sense?
(05:30):
And how's that going to bring down costs and make
things more affordable. It's not. So you got to go
back to what I said, choice and competition bring down costs.
Let's focus on that in healthcare. Let's also look at
the fact that these taxing cuts that we had in
the Big Beautiful Bill are just now starting to kick in.
I think they're going to have pay real dividends for
American families as we move into twenty six and we
get closer to the election. I think that will help
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us politically, certainly will help families in a real way,
help our economy, but also help us politically. I think
all that is going to improve. And then finally, the
last point I make, and you were saying this, Buck,
it was so bad under a Biden. The spending inflation
was off to the chart nine percent like going crazy levels,
record levels of inflation, never seen those levels before. President
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Trump and Republicans bring it down significantly, but things still
cost too much. When you have that, the curve is
going straight up, and you bring the curve down to
almost flat, it's still way too high. So it's going
to take a while for the big beautiful bill, the
tax cuts, the regulatory reform that we had in there
to really impact them. We can do some good things
on healthcare. I think we can bring down cost even more.
We're seeing that at the gas pump right now, lower
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pricing everything else. But I think that's how it has
to play out, and I think it can as we
move into next year, moving and get closer to the election.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I think you hit on the signature issue that's going
to be out there in twenty twenty six talking to
Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, and that is people are
just frustrated with what things cost, and it went up
so fast under Joe Biden that even if you start
to bring back sanity to pricing, the price is still
(07:04):
feel like too much. I mean, I ordered I had
Chick fil A with my kids yesterday. The amount I
have to pay for Chick fil A. It blows my
mind every time I do it. Everyone out there knows
what that feeling is when you go to buy something
and in your head it feels like it should cost
twenty bucks and instead it costs thirty. Everybody knows that feeling.
And I've used the analogy Congressman of back when the
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same thing happened with Jimmy Carter Reagan.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
It took a while for people to stabilize there.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Great point. Will we were talking about the same thing yesterday.
Great point.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Will it register with enough people by the time we
get to November of next year. That's my biggest concern
because I think by twenty eight it will. By twenty six,
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, I mean that's that's you know, that's the big question.
I think it will. I'm confident. One of my colleagues,
excuse me, one of my colleagues said yesterday, he thinks
when when you know, the big beautiful bill really kicks in,
he thinks it will have that kind of impact on
the sharp guy is on the Budget Committee. I mean
understand this stuff. So I tend to think it will.
(08:07):
And I'm always the optimism about these good policies that
we put in place. So let's hope. So I think so,
but we'll just have to see, and we're gonna have
to go out and tell people. And remember, campaigns aren't
just about that. They're also about telling you, telling voters
what the other side wants to do. Never forget I've
said there's many times not all Democrats are crazy, but
the left that controls their party is. And they're the
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party that says we want to defund the police, which
is crazy. They're the party that says men schi compete
against women in sports, which is crazy. They're the party
that says we shouldn't have a border to just be
wide open, which we saw for four years. That is crazy.
So we got to highlight those things as well and
then point to the positive that we've accomplished that make
life better for families across this country. That's how the
campaign's going to unfold, in my judgment, and I think
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we're going to have a pretty good Storytell.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Congers, and do you think that Democrats, after the longest shutdown,
the complete own goal of the shot down, but do
you think that they have politically learned a lesson from this?
As in, this isn't something they want to try again,
or what do you think I mean, looking at the
way that they operated then and what you're hearing now
(09:14):
being up on Capitol Hill and obviously having to work
with Democrats on a whole range of things and deal
with them, what's their takeaway from all of that? What
do you think they're going to do going forward with
continuing resolutions? Like how are they going to play it?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Well, how they're going to play January thirty two? Knows?
You might try it again, But I do not think
they've learned any any lesson that any in a way
we would really I think, wow, I think, well, look
at Chuck Schumer. Six months ago he voted for the
CR and then this time he would have he let
people who were retiring or others in safer seats who
weren't up for re election whether they could vote for
it to open back up the government. So I don't
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think they've learned anything, because again, remember the left controls
their party, and the left was adamantly opposed to opening
up the government. The left is the left, and the
Democrat Party were the people who persuaded them to shut
down the government. So the left control of that party
that's where all the energy is. That's the Mom Donnie
wing that in the AOC wing that that's the control
(10:10):
and the energy and the party. So I do not
think I think they're gonna they're double down on that.
I mean, they ran in a district in Tennessee, mad
Van App's great guy, West Point Brad helicopter pilot, wonderful family,
good guy. We endorsed that guy early, great guy, great candidates.
They ran what the AOC of Tennessee is Tennessee, for
goodness sake, and you're you're talking about some left wing
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person is gonna win a seat in Tennessee that's got
a bunch of rural counties around Nashville. Like that makes
no sense, But that's today's left. So I do I
think the lesson is we're just going to keep pushing
ahead with all the left wing policies.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
What else is out there we should know? Uh, Jim,
as we get ready and we got a lot of
questions about, hey, you know, we know that we're going
to have control of the House in the Senate for
one more year, right until you guys take your recess
in the summer to start the campaign season. And we
know that If we lose the House, President Trump's probably
going to get impeached for a third time. And you
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know better than anybody that stuff will drag that drag on.
It'll be very difficult to get anything passed. What to
you is the most important thing that can be passed
in the next year, that that's your top priority or
that you think should be the top priority of the
Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well, I'll mention two things. One First, it's just more general.
I just think we should do our job. I mean,
there hasn't been a budget passed. The budget sets the
framework for doing the appropriations part. I think we should
do our job. Pass the budget, moving the appropriations fund
the government, follow the processes. That's you know, tried and
true versus all these crs and all these shutdowns talk
and everything else. So just just do our job. Show
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up at committee, focus on good policy. Get the kind
of healthcare that that gives choice and competition versus you know,
more substis that they want to do under Obamacare. So
I think that's sort of in a general sense. Second,
I do think when you look at the weaponization of
government over the last years that we've that we've all
been a part of an scene and uncovered. I do
think we have this spiz of reauthorization coming up in
(12:05):
the spring. I think it's important we get that right
and protect Americans liberties. I mean, I just found out
two weeks ago that Jack Smith and his team were
getting my phone records, spying and surveilling me for two
and a half years. They knew who who called me,
when they called me, how long the call, laughed, and
if I initiated the call, they knew where I was
at when I initiated the call. You talk about patterning
(12:28):
someone's life, You figure out every morning, Clay or Buck,
you call it, you text your wife, when you go
to work, you call it this time, you call your brother,
you call your colleague Clay, like they can pattern all that.
That's creepy, but that's what they were doing. And so
I do think with this spize of reauthorization, we need
to focus on protecting the Fourth Amendment, your First Amendment liberties,
making sure those are strong protections in place, because that's
(12:49):
our system, that's the Constitution, that's the Bill of Rights,
and that's what we need to do. So I think
that's an important element that we have to get right.
That comes up for reauthorization this coming April, and it's
and it's you know, right in our media course.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Awesome. Well, we appreciate the time you bet.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Thanks guys, Thanks all the good work you do. Buck. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I'll be watching thank you next year. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I appreciate the congrats, especially because my shoulder is still
a little sore. But that's a conversation for another time,
old man sex than over here. Thank you, Congressman Jordan.
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what Trump has said about the Somali community in Minneapolis
here in just a second. Getting a lot of attention
on this, but first up, I just I just have
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to because this is going to be fun. We have
as you know, we have robust audience in all fifty states.
But I'm particularly pleased because this shows how cool it
is it radio people could listen to us in Alaska
on the radio, and they do, including Pam who listens
on k E N I six six fifty k E
and I up in Anchorage, and this is what she
(19:23):
had to say.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Okay, Buck, you're trying my patients a little bit here.
So last week I was I was wounded by your
cobbler hatred and on behalf of the entire state of
Alaska who goes you know, weeks and subs are a
weather stop. Just stop with your blanky and your air conditioning.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Look, sometimes the air conditioning is really whistling over here
in South Florida. And I'm wearing shorts and a T
shirt all the time because that's just as one does here.
But I will for our Alaska listeners, Clay, I will
put this out there. It is my understanding that if
you rub your hands together and blow on them a
few times, that can help. Or perhaps Alaskans take your heads,
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put them in your armpits, let them warm up a
little bit, and then it'll be just like South Florida.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Ball me perfect I need. I've said this before.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I'm gonna take a trip you've been because, in fact,
with your dad when we were out to dinner recently,
your brother was complaining about you guys getting dropped off
and grizzly bears and everything else on your family trip
to Alaska where your dad just kind of took.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You into a while.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Tell the quick version of the story is that we actually,
I mean, now this is gonna sound a little a
little frufrey, but we we had these little, very small
helicopters that would drop us off for fly fishing in
some streams in some areas. And you could see in
these streams because you're up in the there's no roads
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and no where to get here. This was off the
Keenai Peninsula, I think it was. This is now going
back two thousand and nine, so I gotta go to
the memory here a bit. But when we landed, we
just landed to do some fly fishing. But the only
way to get in and out was helicopter. And we
were told via radio, oh, you guys, there's a big
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like a storm came in. Suddenly you may have to
just hang out. And then they were like, you may
have to overnight.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
We had nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
We had no food, we had no packs, we had nothing.
So and there were grizzly bears all over the place. Now,
the good thing is the grizzly bears are just eating
salmon and creating a lot of blubber for themselves. For hibernation.
So the grizzly bears are actually in a very good mood,
but they're still large and have teeth and claws and
they could get annoyed at you. We had a couple
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of fifty cow handguns among us, but the guides who
have been one of our guides had actually been a
marine in Fallujah and was a great dude.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
He was just like, look, man.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
The fifty cow, like, it's better to try to skip
the bear away first. And also, if you shoot a
bear in Alaska and it's not in physical you can't
prove that it was actually attacking you. It treated like
a murder investigation. I mean, state authority is gonna be
like you absolutely cannot just be like I thought the
bear was. It basically has to be mauling you and
then you can defend yourself. So he's like, it's better
(22:18):
if you had to you want to shoot in the
air and try to scare it away because he's like
a handgun fifty cow with a full grown grizzly bear charging.
Good luck it doesn't stop. In other words, like it
just keeps coming. Yeah, and I think it I again,
I've never been I need to go. But because there
it was the S and W five hundred. By the way,
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for any you who are wonning, guess, we were carrying revolvers.
So a lot of people have to travel in Alaska
and helicopter and plane because there aren't roads in the
same way that there are for many other parts such
an a a voluminous and expansive place.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I'm also desperately trying to get back my man card
here after that other guy with his devastating cel phone
of Man card violations, Clay, would he put them all
out there?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I was like, Man, that is kind of rough.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
So uh, you know, sometimes I go grizzly bear grizzly
bear fishing or fishing your grizzly bears and do man stuff,
you know what I mean. So you're gonna lost a
ton of videos of you shooting things like that, your
your social media accounts from this weekend. I'm getting out
the bazuka. I'm taking out the full auto this weekend.
I got to make up for some things here. But
you and Laura in all seriousness, and the boys Alaska,
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I mean, we went in summer, but Alaska.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And it's amazingly beautiful and the stop sea is incredible.
I want to thought them. Seeing Moose was really was
really cool too.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
They're so much bigger than you think when you even
get close enough to have some understanding of them, They're
absolutely incredible. All right, all right, back to politics, Back
to Trump. Sorry about that little little diversion there. Try
to rack up a couple of man card points for me.
We have Trump weighing in on the Somali fraud story.
Listen with the President. I state said, I'm just gonna
let you hear it. This has cut ten what I watch.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
One is happening in Minnesota, the land of a thousand lakes.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
However many lakes they have. They got a lot of legs,
but this beautiful.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
Place, and I see these people ripping it off. And
now I'm on the standing and you're gonna look in
to that's got I hear. They ripped off some alliance
ripped off that state for billions of dollars, billions every year,
billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And they contribute nothing.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
The welfare is like eighty eight percent. They contribute nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I don't want them in our country.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Okay, somebody say, oh, that's not politically correct. I don't care.
I don't want them in our country. Their country is
no good for a reason. Their country stakes.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Play.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
As you can imagine, the anti Trump media, the Democrats,
they are all in it, all pizzy about what Trump
said here. This is interesting the population. I'm reading from
our friend. He has a great account at maze more.
Literally this popped up as we're talking about this. During
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a twenty month period, defeeding our future, scammers build for
over one hundred and twenty five million fake meals. Think
about this population of Minnesota, he says about six million people. Uh,
and only one point three million people are under the
age of eighteen.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
So we're not talking.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
When you're billing for one hundred and twenty five million
fake meals. Some of the fake kid names they came
up with were Man Sincere and John Doe. I mean,
this is this the scale of this fraud should have
been so easy to catch because according to this one
(25:58):
hundred and twenty five million meals, what did you have
set back and said, I mean, just think about the
sheer scale that of volume of food you would need
to have to prepare one hundred and twenty five million meals.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
There's I have many thoughts on this.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
One is to steal under the guise of charity, specifically
a charity feeding needy children is particularly grotesque, right, Yes,
you know it's it's bad, and you'll go to prison
for a long time for defrauding the federal government for
Medicare or medicaid or something. But to say, hey, give
(26:35):
me all this money, I'm pretending to feed needy children, right,
there's something particularly gross and particularly detestable about that. That's
that's you know, one aspect of this. And then there's
also I think the recognition play that of course, the
Somali community in Minneapolis, and we'll get to Jacob. I
think it's the mayor Fray is a Jacob Jacob Fray,
(26:57):
I forget his Yes, yes, that's right, right or of Minneapolis.
Here in a second, who now starts speaking Somali in
government you know, meetings and public announcements. Not very well,
I would guess, but he does speak Somali.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
There's a political constituency now in that state that operates
as a unit. And this is what happened. This is
an assimilation. Okay, this is something much more akin to
a fifth column this is a group operating as a
you give us what we want specifically, and in this case,
(27:30):
a group that is operating with a percentage. I understand
it's only you know, a small number overall of the
of the group, but billions of dollars of criminality that
you know, how many people actually touch that money you
start to look at it, it would be interesting and clay.
Then there's also how much of this was able to
continue because people in a Democrat state like Minneapolis just
(27:55):
felt uncomfortable with what was going on with the Somali community,
meaning it will look racist, it will look xenophobic, I
don't want to touch this. One of the most horrific
examples of this phenomenon of a foreign immigrant group that
people don't want to address the criminality going going on
(28:17):
was Rotherham and in the UK, where you had a
pack you had these Pakistani child rape gangs that were
operating and when they went back, this was just a
few years ago, and when they went back and they
kept that girls, little girls and their parents twelve thirteen
years old were going into the police and saying that
this is what happened to me, and the police when
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they finally this became too much of an issue. And
by the way, the US media did not spend nearly
enough time on this. Rotherham is the really infamous case.
That's the name of the town, the city Clay. You
know what they were saying, Well, we didn't want this
to reflect badly. The police were saying, we didn't want
this to reflect badly on the broader Pakistani British community. Yeah,
(28:59):
is that phenomenon alive? And well here that same idea
of well, we don't want to enforce the law because
people will realize we've got a real problem in the
Somali community in Minneapolis. I think Trump certainly thinks that's real. Well,
one of the defenses that's going on, they have a
child rape allegation case that I was reading about in
(29:21):
a Somali immigrant in Minnesota, and the defense that is
being offered on his behalf. Did you see this is
he hasn't really assimilated yet to American culture and he's
still still participating in Somali culture, which means sex with
twelve year olds is considered standard behavior in Somalia. And
(29:44):
so this to me goes to the culture of the
people that we are actually bringing to this country. And
again this is why I don't think there's a hissess.
Also came up, by the way, in the UK with
those Pakistani they call them grooming gangs.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I think that term is where to you know, sort
of sanitize it. Their rape gangs. They were child rape
gangs that were operating. And when they would say well,
in Pakistan, I mean there effectively is no I mean,
the age of consent is not enforced and it doesn't
really exist. Right, So they were saying, well, I mean
the police, everyone, the police in the UK were like, well,
(30:19):
to be fair, it's like, no, you're in the UK
and these are children and you're supposed to defend them.
They should be the first people to be defended in
a civilized place. Clay, the fact that that's even being
brought up here in America is pretty shocking and horrifying. Yeah,
and again I think it goes to why there's not
a great historical analogy in play here. To people who say, well,
(30:41):
we've always had a you know, massive immigration policy. Go
back to Ellis Island. Look at what's written on the
Statue of Liberty. The people who came to America in
the late eighteen hundreds and the early nineteen hundreds, that
huge wave of immigration were coming from Western civilization.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
They're truly similar.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yes, there is a corresponding degree of agreement because it
comes out of a Judeo Christian culture with what should
be considered acceptable in the world that doesn't exist. When
you're talking about the defense being offered for a Somali
individual in the United States who is accused of raping
a twelve year old, the defense is, well, he hasn't
(31:23):
assimilated enough to American culture. What you're saying is the
culture completely condones twelve year old sex in Somalia. This
is I mean, this is a thing that I'll tell you.
In Afghanistan, a lot of our soldiers who worked very
closely with the indigenous forces and some of the indigenous
(31:46):
elements there. One of the terrible things that they would
become aware, you know, they weren't the police force of
Afghanistan so to speak, but they've become aware of is
what is culturally allowed in a place like Afghanistan is barbarous.
It is barbarous, truly, Okay. And uh we were trying
(32:08):
to just you know, stop the Taliban, and we were
told you know that you aren't the local police force.
I mean this this you guys who served that, the
guys and gals listening served in Afghanistan. You know exactly
what I'm talking about the kind of stuff that would
go on over there culturally and specifically when it came
to the the uh, the sexual abuse of of of
children that was not you know, they we weren't. They
(32:32):
weren't talking about it, and the pressed do you want
to talk about it? Because Afghanistan has its own you know,
had its own cultural standards.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
It was horrific, horrific the stuff that was going on
over there. Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
And anyway, and we import the third world and we wonder,
what's going on?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
This is the point.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
We're bringing people in from these places and then they
act a certain way and we go, wait a second,
you you know, you mean, this isn't what the founders intended.
And Trump is saying, you know, we got to look
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Speaker 2 (35:05):
Welcome back in play Travis Buck Sexton show you guys
holding up phone lines. We're going to get to a
bunch of your calls in the third hour. Let me
go to John in Loma Linda, California. John, what you
got for us?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Time? Listener. Then I was started with rushback in the eighties.
I was listening to the callers decrying that the victory
of margin in Tennessee was only nine points. The issue
here is that these callers and panic and Republicans, along
with low IQ Democrats, is that they don't really understand
proportional statistics. To six seven has just under eight hundred
(35:37):
thousand voters and over seventy percent voted in twenty twenty four,
with Trump's margin victory being around twenty two percent. In
this special election, less than one hundred and eighty thousand
voters showed up, which is approximately twenty three percent of
the voting population, and Van Epps still won by nine
percent and more than two times to predictive poll standard error.
(35:57):
What that means is that the Democrat was salacked in
this election and Dan Evs will have to spend his
seat next year. But I suspect that when you get
over fifty percent, he'll win with double digits.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I agree with the caller like the data analysis here. Again,
these special elections have much lower turnout rates, and as
I said, there are more people on the left who
define their entire lifestyle based on the identity of their vote.
We come back, we'll dive into this Venezuela situation. A
lot of talks still coming on that we'll take another
(36:31):
little victory lap over the election results that came in
last night, and we'll take more of your calls eight
hundred and two to two, eight two. If you're still
with us, you can hang on. Plus lots of reaction
to our caller Linda from yesterday.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
We'll have some more fun with that. Thank y'all,
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